Nexus 3 API to delete repositories

[Thiago Figueiró]

OSS 3.12.1-01

Is there a way to programatically delete repositories?

Repository creation is possible by using the REST APIs script endpoint (https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/rest-and-integration-api/script-api#ScriptAPI-RunScript).

e.g.:

{
  "name": "create_some-repo",
  "content": "
    import org.sonatype.nexus.repository.storage.WritePolicy;
    repository.createPyPiHosted('some-repo', 'default', false, WritePolicy.ALLOW_ONCE);
  ",
    "type": "groovy"
}

The documentation for the RepositoryApi only has Create methods:

public interface RepositoryApi
extends org.sonatype.nexus.common.script.ScriptApi

The UI itself does a POST to /service/extdirect with some sort of faux-JSON-RPC payload:

'{"action":"coreui_Repository","method":"remove","data":["some-repo"],"type":"rpc","tid":18}'

I could do something like that myself but the "tid" parameter isn't returned as part of /beta/repositories. It is, however, obtainable through the same (undocumented?) /service/extdirect API. This would be dodgy at best, so I'd rather not do it this way.

Is there another spot that I haven't looked or another approach that will allow me to delete repositories?

Many thanks

Thiago.

[Alexei Znamensky]

Hi Thiago,

You can use:

repository.repositoryManager.delete("some-repo-name")

But it is possible this is an internal construct and it's subject to change without notice from Sonatype. Use at your own discretion.

Cheers,

Alexei

[Thiago Figueiró]

This is definitely better than the extdirect hack I considered. I'll go with it and update when something better comes-up.

Thank you!

[Michael Martz]

FYI, I've marked this issue as public now so it can be voted on. https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-15091

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